Thoughts on Islam History

I have been listening to a book on CD- Islam by Karen Armstrong. It is really interesting and one point that really 'spoke' to me.

Muslim Fundalmentalists- the book noted that due to past oppression by colonizing western nations [britian and india] and the insistance that society become modern and government by secular, some groups protested by reinterpreting the Quran to emphasize particular aspects and completely create new factors that are supposedly "muslim": like veiling women and not allowing them to be apart of society, or believing any nation that is modern is against Islam and therefore a war enemy worthy of death.

From a socialogical standpoint, that makes sense to me. Of course I am no way approving it at all. It just speaks of people feeling they are being pushed and wanting to push back, though in a very wrong way that has the media reporting on their actions and telling the world 'this is how all muslims are'